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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

U.S. Foreign Policy: A Civil War Here, a Civil War There

I am so glad cats like John McCain and
John Kerry didn’t win the Presidency. Likewise I am just as sad that George W.
Bush and Barack Obama won the presidency and if there is a God, I am certain he
would let Sponge Bob Square Pants ascend to the Presidency before Hillary
Clinton. And all of this is stated in objective terms, the most prominent being
that the Bush and Obama Administration’s foreign policy when implemented only
results in civil war, no matter where it is practiced, but especially in the
Middle East and North Africa.

Case in point, this past Sunday, during
a joint press conference with Egypt’s
newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, "The
United States of America is not responsible for what happened in Libya, nor is
it responsible for what is happening in Iraq today."In the same briefing, he later stated, "US
is not engaged in picking or choosing any one individual... it's up to the
people of Iraq to choose their own leadership."

Both of these statements are a complete
and utter ignorance of the facts from a historical and temporal context or
either blatant lies. Although vilified for stating such, Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei correctly accused Washington of just exploiting the
violence in Iraq and Syria to regain control of Iraq by placing it once again “under its [U.S.] hegemony” and rule of “its stooges.” This has always been the premise of plutocratic desires under
the storm cloud of nation building and implementing democracy, as amorphous a
concept as it is. In 2003, I read that “The
war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them
Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history” – Ari Shavit, April 5, 2003 Haaretz News Service-Israel. I find this statement, with
the Semitic tone aside both accurate and consistent with history insofar as we
can evaluate the aforementioned from the perspective of the foreign policy
statements and practices of the last two U.S. executive administrations.

The general
problem is that regardless of political affiliation, the neo’s (neoconservatives and neoliberals) have a greater concern in their corporate financiers interest
than the citizenry of America, and this my friend is regardless of political
party and or the race of the President. Their preference is to place an
inordinate amount of focus and attention on places like Syria, Libya, Iraq, Ukraine and other foreign nations, than the needs of
U.S. citizenry. Instead, they apply the same standard to us as a foreign
nation: drones, massive intrusive spying, domestic economic destabilization and
labeling the average man a terrorist simply for exercising liberties guaranteed
via the Bill of Rights.

This is clear to see for the thinking
person.Let us examine the first example
of President George W. Bush and de-Baathification. Shortly after the fall of the Saddam regime, via L. Paul
Bremer, as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), in one of his
first things President Bush introduced was the de-Baathification program to
remove members of the Ba’ath Party from their positions of authority and to ban
them from future employment in government. They [the Bush Administration]
selected Ahmed Chalabi to head of the De-Baathification Committee, which had
the goals of preventing the Baath from regaining power, avoiding and retribution
against Baathists and isolating the majority of Baathists from their party
leaders.

This process of de-Baathification was
supported via the forfeiture and seizure of all party assets and property, which
was to be held in trust by the CPA for the use and benefit of the Iraqi people,
albeit there were no real Iraqi citizens involved, just an Iraqi
de-Baathification Council (IDC), composed entirely of Iraqi nationals formerly living
in the U.S. and Europe mainly.

From the beginning de-Baathification
was a very incongruent and f##ked up process for lack of a better phrase. Not
only did it not achieve it aims, it also polarized Iraqi politics and worse,
made the Iraqi military and government even more unstable after U.S. military
intervention and occupation. Then it brought in al-Qaeda, to a region where it
had never existed before as well as driving a wedge between Sunni, Shia and even Kurds in Iraq. And after all of this, Barack Obama came in, and when you
thought his promise to end the war would make things much better, they actually
followed the GWB foreign policy playbook and made things even worse.

Taking U.S. policy a step farther,
the Obama
Administration took up the doings of the fat cats of Saudi Arabia and Qatar
along with big banks of the West and have in effect declared war on Shiites the
world over. Now to be clear, I would like to see Obama, Bush, Cheney, Blair,
Brown, Cameron, Rice, Kerry, Rice, and tried, as War Criminals and should be.

Kerry
comments only reinforce the failures of America’s Manifest Destiny foreign
policy. As such, no past Administration or current one will ever take responsibility
for a foreign policy of endless wars of aggression and regime change. It may
even be more appropriate to call U.S. foreign policy as the policy of civil
war.Where ever we insert our political
nose abroad, the result is the destruction of a stable nation and civil
war.We see it now in the Ukraine where
Obama supports the fascist Poroshenko’s new
government, as well in the outcome via our interference in Libya, Iraq,
Nigeria, and Pakistan or wherever the U.S./NATO decided to involve themselves
without request. Again, categorically, I repeat, the US is responsible for
Libya, Tunis, Egypt and Syria.

And
now the fine mess of Obama policy has by intent, morphed into a sectarian Sunni
versus Shia conflict. Strangely, all in nations for the most part which were
secular governments. The Obama administration has consistently taken a foreign
policy approach in the Middle East and Africa of over-throwing secular
governments, this time it is Syria. This was done by intentionally arming and
letting groups like ISIL grow stronger and stronger. He openly complains
against Assad in Syria, and Iran, but ignores how Sunni leaders in Bahrain and
Saudi Arabia violate the human rights of their majority Shia populations. Think
about it, several months ago when the Iraqi government asked for U.S.
airstrikes to repel ISIS, Obama refused, which was probably the first time he
refused such an offer from an allied government. I mean, he didn’t even ask for
approval to conduct illegal airstrikes in 8 other countries under the guise of
fighting terrorism.Even stranger was
observing President Obama refusing to acknowledge that our closer allies in the
region (Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia) have been giving hundreds of millions
of dollars to the Islamic extremist terrorist group invading Iraq and attacking
the Syrian government.

Lastly,
the assertion that the U.S. believes that people have a right to decide if they
wish to govern themselves is only true when the U.S. say’s so, for we have seen
them place many in power whom the nations had no interest in being brought to
power as we recently saw with Poroshenko in the
Ukraine, Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq, Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan and to a certain
extent, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt. S###,
the U.S. even installed Saddam
Hussein.

American policy will never be in a position to address the multitude of
issues in the Middle East whether it pertains to the Israeli-Palestinian issue,
Indo-Pakistani conflict, or the rise of Islamic radicalism in Pakistan, Yemen,
or Somali. I don’t know what world Kerry and the present administration, nor
the prior administration live. I guess it is like Joseph Goebbels, Minister of
Propaganda for Hitler’s Third Reich said: “Tell a good lie enough times and
people will think it is the truth.”

5 comments:

Fascinating analysis of US foreigh policy over the past 14 years. I agree and disagree with multiple facets of this well-written piece. Disclaimer: I'm a Republican, but consider myself objective. I agree that Obama, despite his pledge to do otherwise, has largely carried out the Bush 43 policies in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, he has done a poorer job of executing the same basic philosophy W had. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld/Gates and Powell/Rice were a much stronger foreign policy team than thair Obama administration counterparts. However, I would not categorize any of them, from either administration, as war criminals. Mistakes have been made, but largely out of good intentions from both groups. But it is becoming more and more clear (to me at least) that we should completely exit the Middle East, with the exception of supporting/defending Israel. We should stop exporting oil and should drill/refine all we can for domestic use and just let the Middle East countries fend for themselves. If we are not there, and we have a surplus of oil, what do we care if they all kill each other? If we leave that region, they will largely leave us alone (Israel remains an issue). It's not worth our blood and treasure to be over there. Period.